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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 21h

If there's an iota of truth in this, then it's the final nail in Trump's coffin. It's not like Melania commands any public respect: but the fiction of a functional relationship was his last chance with GOP women. He's a dead wanker walking. Or maybe waddling www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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Trump & Melania Are Reportedly ‘Completely Estranged’ as Experts Claim Their Marriage Is ‘Not in a Healthy Place’

Is divorce in the cards?

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 22h

He's wrong. He probably knows it and is making the best fist of it that he can. As another wanker, Boris Johnson, said of his own defeat, "When the herd moves, it moves." And the herd has definitively moved. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage

Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 23h

Despite his worst efforts, Trump has reached the 'Uncut Gems' stage of his administration. It's only a matter of time before he appears on the world stage with metaphorical or literal bloodied tissues stuffed up his nose

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I won't leave the Greens, but I could see myself voting tactically with Labour at the next GE. Burnham's support for electoral reform is a huge step forward. He's hitting other buttons, too. I'd like to see Zack inviting a collaborative relationship www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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No 10 gathering evidence on public support for rejoining the EU

Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Louis Mosley, Palantir's vice-president for the UK has accused people who disagree with Palantir's NHS contract of suffering from “Palantir derangement syndrome”. Any executive who believes that channelling Trump in Britain is effective marketing is a cloth-eared nincompoop and a knob-end

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is more precious than rubies: Senator Eric Schmitt believes he has a gotcha on Jack Smith during his cross-examination at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. But he doesn't know his Hawks (in Atlanta) from his Hawkeyes (in Iowa). He will cringe, deservedly, forevermore youtu.be/YPH-LxxJOHA

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🚨GOP Cross-Exam INSTANTLY BACKFIRES…

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Musk's latest phallic symbol has erectile dysfunction. That'll be the Ketamine...

A breaking Sky News story headlined, "SpaceX's Starship rocket to splash down early - after losing one engine"

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nope, I don't buy Trump's bluster about a coordinated approach to the RAF Fairford would-be terrorist attack, or Streeting's day-after concurrence. It seems clear to me that it was a lucky catch by a local. If so, only honesty will help to improve future security www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

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RAF Fairford live updates: Streeting thanks farmer who alerted police but says she has ‘a partial picture’

Member of the public who contacted police after seeing ‘group of hooded and masked men’ near RAF base says she thinks ‘someone dropped the ball’ over incident

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Burnham's Northern roots is at risk of becoming the new, 'My dad was a toolmaker.'

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump will give the world one great gift: the global day of celebration when we wake up to read that he has died. The rest of his legacy is just evil, narcissism, fraud and lies.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested for supporting Palestine Action. Only one in three UK voters think that Palestine Action should be illegal. Burnham is standing on a common sense ticket. OK: let's see some common sense. And if we see bullshit or obfuscation, eff him

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is there any more telling symbol of Trump's ineptitude than his comprehensive effing up of the reflecting pool? It's easy to overestimate the agency of an entirely corrupt, amoral shark; but he's demonstrably just crap at doing stuff: a fat old fraud www.indy100.com/politics/tru...

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‘Everything Trump touches dies’: Snap of empty Reflecting Pool sparks condemnation

While “there’s always a tweet” highlights past tweets from US president Donald Trump which undermine his actions in the present day, “everything Trump touches dies” refers to the 80-year-old’s many pr...

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apart from the moral arguments - education should be free - the UK govt is far more likely to retrieve student fees if the repayment schedule is manageable for young people on entry incomes. It's the stupidest that HMRC gets (with considerable competition) you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...

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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a wise opinion piece about the decline of Trump. The one thing I think it misses is that, as Hemingway said of bankruptcy, it can happen "two ways: Gradually, then suddenly.” My (notoriously unreliable) gut tells me that's how Trump is going to collapse www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes

Trump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans distance themselves from him

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daniel Thomas blubbing in court after responding to charges that he slashed a rescue dinghy with a rescue worker in it. Real alpha male stuff

A court artist's representation of Daniel Thomas crying in court

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is that the quickest Trump administration climbdown Evah? Was it the constitutional illegality, or the withdrawal of press pool coverage? Either way, expect petty acts of petulant vengefulness in the days to come www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Journalists from CNN, Politico, and MS Now belatedly regain access to White House after judge ruling – live

A federal judge had ruled Trump administration must immediately return the outlets’ press passes and said ban likely unconstitutional

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As far as I can see, #BBC news services have failed to report on far-right 'activist' Daniel Thomas slashing a dinghy with a rescue worker on board. I would love to hear the newsroom rationale for why they did not cover what is self-evidently an important story www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week I treated myself to a Georgian silver meat skewer - something I've wanted for a while. A quintessential symbol of wealth and privilege. So why, 100 years after it was assayed, would it be inscribed to commemorate the Leeds City Employees Strike in December 1913? It's truly baffling.

A georgian silver meat skewer. Used at the table, rather than in tbe oven

The hallmarks. It was assayed in Exeter in 1813 by the silversmith John Legg

A subsequent engraved inscription, reading, "LEEDS CITY EMPLOYEES STRIKE, DEC. 1913"

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump *always* betrays his sycophants. Natalie Harp will be betrayed and discarded in her turn; probably for telling him what he wants to hear, rather than what he needs to hear.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's arguable that Stephen Miller is the most morally evil man in the western world. It's a tight race between him and Netanyahu. The planet will be a better, cleaner place when he is put down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stick to your right hands, boys, like you always have. And leave the taser gloves on for that extra buzz

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The GOP is a pathetic parody of the party it once was. They have sold their souls for silver, and they are about to learn the meaning of accountability.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bradfordians with long memories may remember that Jacob's Well office building was shortlisted as one of the ugliest in the UK. It was as dysfunctional to work in as it was repulsive to look at. Wonderful, then, that it will be the site of the Brit North arts college: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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First images of Brit North arts college in Bradford revealed

Inspired by the world famous Brit School, the college is set to be built in the centre of Bradford.

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Notes From Plague Island 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 🇲🇽 @plagueisland.com · 16/09/2026

An Israeli drone operator asked an intelligence officer which targets to load. The answer, he told Haaretz: "You have two million targets in Gaza." Gaza has about two million people. Nobody, he says, was ever held accountable. 73,651 are dead. There is a word for two million targets.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Respectfully, I would suggest he keeps our collective nose out. It really isn't our mess and we have little vested interest to justify getting sucked into it.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many, many years ago, this happened one evening over Bradford. I was driving home and had to stop and get out of the car to look at it. It was gobsmackingly beautiful. Not ice crystals in that case, but a huge fire in Leeds chucking crap into tbe atmosphere www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Cloudy with a chance of rainbow: iridescent clouds brighten the sky over parts of Victoria

Rainbow clouds are not uncommon in Australia but rarely photographed, and experts say they get their colours when light is diffracted around ice crystals

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Daily Hellegraph does its best to turn a healthy eating initiative into a culture wars story. They could have led with, 'Pie and peas and dal on the menu for schoolkids'; but they didn't.

A front page story from the UK Daily Telegraph headlined, 'No ice cream and compulsory lentils in school meal shake-up'

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've got a lot of time for Fox's Jessica Tarlov. Cynics may say she's found a momey making niche; but she's just been on @meidastouch.com (catch up with it: it's a decent watch) and I saywithout hesitation that she's tbe real deal.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I watch @meidastouch.com several times a day and really value its reportage. But I do wish that Ben Meisalas would occasionally qualify his reporting with a recognition that the Iranian government and the Houthi rebels are evil, oppressive regimes, too. Just once in a while.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is this the third or fourth arson attack on Keighley's Dalton Mills? I've lost count. It's nothing but walls now, and probably four unstable walls, at that. Time to flatten it, I'm afraid. news.sky.com/story/fire-r...

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Fire ravages historic mill featured in Peaky Blinders and Downton Abbey

More than a dozen fire engines were sent to tackle a major blaze at Dalton Mills, a Yorkshire landmark which has suffered repeated arson attacks.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Voltaire's "Perfect is the enemy of good" could be called Bluesky Fever. I'm guilty of it myself. Every day I see angry condemnation of political parties and other entities for being less than ideal, when they're broadly well-intentioned, decent & effective. Why are we so intolerant of imperfection?

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shameful cowardice by Commons MPs. They all know that the overwhelming majority of the electorate is in favour of assisted dying with appropriate safeguards. They have comdemned thousands every year to a painful, drawn out and undignified final illness and death www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

Bill fails at second reading despite near-identical legislation being approved by Commons in last parliament

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When the Republican party can't win an election on its merits and achievements, Trump tells them to cheat and promises the electorate bribes with his fingers crossed. There's nothing 'grand' about the GOP any more. The 'g' stands for grift, grabbing, grubby www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘I’m on the ticket’: Trump implores Republicans to vote in November at unusual midterm convention

The president demonised Democrats in an attempt to wangle votes in midterms despite backlash over Iran war

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Chinese government's terror of protest and its desperation to hide its slaughter of protesters in Tiananmen Square, betrays a fundamental weakness. Strong governments defend the citizenry's right to protest, and values it as a mechanism for public discourse www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Tiananmen Square vigil organisers jailed for seven years in Hong Kong

Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That's the accomplished and confident signature of somebody who has signed balls before

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know what to say: 'Trump is the twat who cried dividend'. He promised a $5,000 'DOGE dividend' early in his 2nd term AND a $2,000 'tariff dividend'. in November. Of course neither happened. Everybody - even his supporters - knows he lies as easily as he breathes www.rawstory.com/trump-divide...

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Trump's shockingly brazen midterm 'bribe' dumbfounds critics: 'I don't know what to say'

President Donald Trump's plan to pay a $5,000 dividend to every adult in America is drawing online outrage against the scheme.Trump told his audience at the GOP convention on Wednesday, which was spar...

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I think the war's going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any longer," Trump said of Tehran on Wednesday. Will the US electorate fall for his 'jam tomorrow' BS again? I don't think so. I certainly hope not.

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK government is criticising the actions which *cause* British Jews to feel less safe - genocidal violence against Palestinian civilians by the IDF and thug 'settlers'. The Chief Rabbi could help Jews feel safer by stating his opposition to that violence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Miliband rejects chief rabbi’s claim that West Bank sanctions put UK Jews at risk

Foreign secretary says Sir Ephraim Mirvis wrong to suggest measures against Israeli settlements will make British Jews less safe

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Maxxine Dupri's performance in the Money in the Bank eliminator against Sol Ruca and and Lyra Valkyria was solid. I've always sided against the 'You can't wrestle' chanters out of antipathy to bullying and sentimentality. But no longer: that lass can hold her head up with the best of them #WWE

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shutting the gate after the monster has murdered one hundred thousand innocents and destroyed its right to be represented on any civilised platform forever www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK to adopt tougher stance on Israel with illegal settlements trade ban

Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move likely to draw fierce criticism from US and Israel

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've just caught up with WWE Main Event's main event. I can't imagine I'm alone in regarding it as silly, hack storytelling. *Three* ref KO spots? Give over, you silly sods

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like we're seeing the same daft experiment repeated over and over again: the electorate, fed up of ineffective and mildly corrupt career politicians, vote in out-and-out right wing gangsters, and regret it at leisure #AFD #REFORM #MAGA

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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After Witcoff and Kushner's rip-roaring success in ending the US /Israel war against Iran, I have the highest hopes for them settling Russia vs. Ukraine. Next, get them on ending malaria and finding the end of the sellotape www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Russia-Ukraine war: US envoys set for Ukraine talks after Putin meeting

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leave Moscow talks with hopes for "equally productive meetings" in Ukraine.

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